6 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About North Korea

As tensions between North Korea and the U.S. mount, curiosity about what life is like there has increased.

There’s a lot about North Korea that the world doesn’t know, largely because of the governing regime’s intense control over its citizens and its wary approach to outsiders. But between satellite images, North Korean citizens who fled to other countries, and the small number of people who have managed to visit, a picture of everyday North Korea has slowly emerged.